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Series of links. Cool stuff I've found on the web. Think of those as public bookmarks.

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Videos

TED Talks

• Charles Leadbeater on innovation.
• Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting, inspiring talk about Indian cleverness for collecting waters in the desert.
• Adam Savage's obsessions, a totally obsess nerd. Fascinating.
• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation, why carrot and stick sucks to motivate creative workers.
• David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization, data porn.
• George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity. Simplicity is elegance.
• Ron Eglash on african fractals, very funny, geek and interesting talk.
• Bill Gross on new energy, invention of solar energy device with genetic algorithms. Very interesting idea. (Read the comments to). His website.
• Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action, from "What-How-[Why]" to "Why-How-What". This talk is a reference for me. So simple and so effective.
• Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work, put happiness before success.

Wikipedia stuff

• Pygmalion effet, the power of perception.
• Barcamp, cool meting concept. See also corworking (no directly link).

Réfléchir (fr)

• Inculture(s) de Franck Lepage, vidéo qui ouvre les yeux sur ce qu'est vraiment le ministère de la culture en franc et sur l'usage que la capitalisme fait du vocabulaire pour faire passer ses idées.
• Inculture(s) 2 de Franck Lepage, la suite, sur l'enseignement cette fois.

Jesse Schell

• Design outside the box, very interesting and funny talk about video games, facebook, the wii etc... The end is quite strange btw.
• Visions of the Gamepocalypse, this conf is the continuation of Design outside the box. Prediction of the future with the combination of games and the tracking of everything. Long: nearly 2 hours.

Learning

• The Khan Academy.
• MIT free online recorded courses.

Conf

• Django reusable apps, why django rocks so much. It's like desktop programming for the web.
• RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too", interesting conf not so much on ruby and smalltalk. Very relevant since it talks about history of programming since smalltalk to ruby.

Reading

• 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success
• 5 Reasons Why Trying to be Successful Will Keep You Poor. "focus squarely on becoming a confident person, rather than a successful one"

Some books

• Extreme programming explained, the extreme programming bible.
• Getting Things Done
• Head First, design patterns, very good introduction to design patterns.
• The fallout bible, because fallout is life.

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